Speaking of eloquence ..THE INCARNATION OF KRISHNA

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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste friends.

 

Many spiritual seekers must have heard the important verse from

Srimad Bhagavatam (3.2.23), which had AWAKENED the liberated Sage,

Sri Sukadeva Paramahamsa disturbing his nirvikalpa samadhi and

forcibly attracting him to hear more about the Gracious Lord and His

Blissful exploits from the compiler of Vedas, Sri Vyasadeva.

 

"aho bakIyaM stana kAlakUTaM

jighAMsayA 'pAyayadapya sAdhvI

lebhe gatiM dhAtryucitAM tato 'nyaM

kaM vA dayAluM zaraNaM vrajema"

 

(Bhagavatam 3.2.23)

 

Meaning - " O, Lord! There is NO ONE Who is as LOVING and MERCIFUL as

YOU, at Whose feet I can take REFUGE.

You are so CAUSELESSLY Merciful, that You EVEN gave the WICKED

demoness, Putana, the place of a FOSTER-MOTHER in Your abode and

LIBERATED her, even though she came to You with the MURDEROUS

INTENTION of suckling You with her POISONED breasts."

 

When Lord Krishna was asked to EXPLAIN His behaviour, He offered the

EXCUSE, "She suckled Me as a MOTHER, so I had to BLESS her with a

REWARD befitting a MOTHER."

 

The moment these words entered the Paramahamsa sage Sukadeva's ears,

his intense absorption in the Formless, Attributeless, Absolute

Brahman, was broken.

 

Observe, material words DO NOT enter the state of samadhi, but THIS

verse (about Lord's Divine Attribute of matchless forgiveness)

entered Sukadeva's samadhi, and it ended abruptly.

 

His heart LONGED to hear MORE transcendental pastimes of Lord

Krishna, the Saguna, Saakaara Purnatama Purushottama Brahman.

 

The mysterious effect of Lord Krishna's Gracious pastimes can be

fully realized and relished only by Rasiks and liberated Saints.

 

An ordinary worldly person may hear this verse from the Bhagavatam,

but experience NO devotional ecstasy.

 

But the liberated Paramahamsa Sukadeva was irresistably drawn out of

his samadhi by this powerful sacred verse of Lord's Grace, and he at

once set forth to look for his father Veda Vyasa to hear the ENTIRE

Bhagavatam from him.

 

(Source- 'Prema Rasa Siddhant')

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!